@farmerman,
I once asked, on a different thread about dogs. No creationist ever responded to the thread.
The question was, if only two of each species made it onto the ark, why are there so many breeds of dog? And why do they all look so different.
The obvious implication is that the Bible itself is either supportive of evolution, or Noah's Ark is wrong. After all, there were only two dogs there, and now:
- There's St Bernards and Min Foxy's;
- Dasch hounds, and English Bulldogs
- Pugs , and Poodles
- Mastifs and Terriers
- Labradors and Greyhounds
- artic dogs vs equatorial dogs
- etc. So not just the size varies, but the body shape, the amount of muscle, the speed, the appetite (anyone who owns a labrador will understand that last), the amount of hair their body grows, and even their instinct (to herd, to point, to retrieve, loyalty to territory vs roaming, etc)
Breeds of course, are different to species. And since Noah's Ark:
- there are hundreds of breeds
- new breeds cropping up, each with their own unique look
- with enough breeding, they eventually become purebred (there are implications for evolution in this)
Of course, asking why Australian animals are so unique is also problematic to the Noah's Ark story.
Same for the 8.7 million species of animal in the world.